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Tech Tracker is a semiweekly digest of links. I've scanned the broad scope of technology news and writing and summarized what I thought was the most interesting or important (or both).
Professor Gives Students the Option of Purchasing His Lectures Online
Miss class - buy the lecture. Should this college professor be selling his lectures online?
Via Debuts "Carbon-Free" Desktop CPU
Another "green" move: a carbon-free computer chip. When did using carbon become earth-unfriendly?
What about Quad Core?
Wow - dual quad-core processors in a Mac Pro means eight cores! That's a lot of power.
'Lonelygirl15' Creators Admit to YouTube Fiction
Scam of the week: This "vodcast" was all a sham. No, she wasn't a 16 year-old homeschooler, but a 19 year-old actress fishing for a gig.
Students Spurn Free Music Downloads
Free downloads instead of pirated or paid-for - but the students don't want them.
Surfing Anonymously Has Its Drawbacks
Surfing anonymously gave this guy more trouble than it was worth. I wonder how different Safari's "Private Browsing" feature is?
Microsoft Announces Zune
Specs
Zune revealed. So it looks like the key to "knocking the iPod off its throne" is the color brown. I ask you: What can brown do for you?
U.S. Official Questions Regulatory Scrutiny of Apple
The international push-back against Apple's digital rights management policies is itself scrutinized by U.S. antitrust officials.
Recent Tech Tracker articles
- Quad-core Mac Pro, carbon-free computing, Lonelygirl15 scam, Microsoft Zune, and more, 09.15. Also students have option to buy lectures online, students spurn free and legal music downloads, the frustration of anonymous surfing, and Apple's FairPlay undergoes antitrust scrutiny.
- Microsoft high school, Vista reality check, Unbox is spyware, eBay seller tips, and more, 09.11. Also the top secret warplanes of Area 51, the father of blue LEDs, trash to fuel in Florida, the iPod is losing its cool, and more.
- The genes that make us human, home theft via identity theft, danger of a shared calendar, and more, 09.08. Also virtual theft in the online world, Google's eavesdropping software, hacking a voting machine, being green, energy independence, clever use of an Xbox 360, and more.
- Toshiba to build Zune, make your own .mac, how soon an email response?, 17 Office killers, and more, 09.01. Also skipping morning classes in favor of the podcast, a Star Trek thesis, and Nokia's new N80 multimedia phone.
- More in the Tech Tracker index.
Links for the Day
- Mac of the Day: PowerBook 150, July 1994 - The first PowerBook with an IDE hard drive also supports 40 MB RAM.
- List of the Day: Mac Pro List is for those using a Mac Pro.
- November 23 in LEM history: 99: Should I buy a USB card? - 01: Can a low-end Mac be an only Mac? - Palm Desktop without a PDA - CyberDog saves the day - 05: How Consumer Reports could compare Macs fairly - Speakers for your Mac - Living with the hi-res 15" PowerBook - Birth of the PowerBook - Daystar 1.9 GHz iMac G4 upgrade - 1.92 GHz PowerBook upgrade
Recent Content on Low End Mac
- Apple's Tablet an End Run Beyond Netbooks, Frank Fox, Stop the Noiz, 11.20. Whatever Apple has planned will leverage existing technologies while going beyond what its competitors can offer.
- i5 iMac Benchmarked, Mac mini 'Shouldn't Be Overlooked', Twitter Client for Classic Mac OS, and More, Mac News Review, 11.20. Also why Apple leaves the low end to others, 10.6.2 fixes video playback problem in 27" iMac, 3D Leopard and Snow Leopard performance, and more.
- Apple #4 in Reliability, Apple Tablet a Gadget for All?, HP's i7 Notebook Outdoes Mac Rivals, and More, The 'Book Review, 11.20. Also Flash 10.1 improves video on Hackintosh netbooks, thin-and-light notebooks impress, Windows XP finally on the way out, and more.
- NASA Chemical Sensor for iPhone, Smartphone Death Match, iPhone Earrings, and More, Ian R Campbell, 11.20. Also mobile phone dangers, new apps, GPS solution for iPod touch, new iPod and iPhone cases, and more.
- Replacing the Hard Drive in a Clamshell iBook, John Hatchett, Recycled Computing, 11.19. Yes, it is one of the most difficult Apple notebooks to disassemble and reassemble, but a 10 GB hard drive just will not do.
- IBM Model F: A Great Old Keyboard with an Outdated Layout, Tommy Thomas, Welcome to Macintosh, 11.19. Although it used a different technology than the revered IBM Model M keyboard, the Model F was a great keyboard in its own right.
- Soft Touch Keyboards, Wireless Mouse Options, Loving SeaMonkey 2, and More, Charles W. Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 11.18. Also the future of browsing with PowerPC Macs and the multiple mouse input bug introduced with OS X 10.5.8.
- More links in our archive.
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